Recover Access if Your Verification Method Is Replaced, Gets Lost, or Stops Working (Salesforce Orgs)

Recover Access if Your Verification Method Is Replaced, Gets Lost, or Stops Working (Salesforce Orgs)

There are situations that can affect your identity verification method so you’re not able to use it for multi-factor authentication (MFA) logins to your Salesforce account.

Required Editions

Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: all editions

Access issues typically fall into two categories. The most likely is you lose or replace your verification method — for example, you get a new mobile phone or computer and need to switch your authenticator app or built-in authenticator to your new hardware, or you lose your security key and replace it with a new one. Another possibility is that the connection between your verification method and your Salesforce account stops working. In these cases, the way to restore MFA login access is to disconnect the affected verification method, then either reconnect it or register a replacement method instead.

  • If you're not able to log in to complete this task, ask your admin for a temporary verification code.
  • If you have trouble disconnecting a verification method, you can ask your admin to disconnect it for you.
  • Consider registering two or more verification methods so you have backup options if something happens to your primary method.

The steps for this task depend on the type of verification method that you’re using.

For the Salesforce Authenticator app, a third-party one-time password authenticator app, or a security key

  1. From your personal settings, in the Quick Find box, enter Advanced User Details, and then select Advanced User Details.
  2. In the User Detail section, find your verification method and click [Disconnect].
    Disconnect link
  3. Reconnect the verification method or register a replacement method. See Register an Identity Verification Method for Salesforce Orgs.

For a built-in authenticator

  1. From your personal settings, in the Quick Find box, enter Advanced User Details, and then select Advanced User Details.
  2. In the Built-in Authenticators section, find the built-in authenticator that you want to disconnect.
  3. Click Del, and then click OK when prompted to confirm.
    Del link
  4. Reconnect the verification method or register a replacement method. See Register an Identity Verification Method for Salesforce Orgs.